Who can I talk to about mathematics?

If you have any questions about our mathematics teaching and learning, you can speak to your child's class teacher or our Mathematics Leader, Mr O'Neill.

Our vision for the teaching of Maths at Studley St Mary’s:

We aim for all children to become fluent mathematicians, with the confidence and skill to apply their knowledge to accurately problem solve in a variety of contexts, due to their deep, long-term, secure and adaptable understanding of the subject.

 To achieve our vision, we have adopted a Teaching for Mastery approach to our mathematics curriculum. Children are guided along a coherent, small step journey together, using concrete, pictorial and abstract representations to explore concepts and build connections, with opportunities to both support and challenge thinking and reasoning. This approach ensures a deep, secure understanding for all and provides all children with full access to the curriculum, enabling them to achieve confidence and competence – ‘mastery’ – in mathematics. It is important to us that children enjoy maths and see its relevance in everyday life, hence we try to design our maths lessons to be interactive and engaging.

White Rose Maths:

We follow White Rose Maths. The White Rose scheme of learning is designed to support a mastery approach to learning, as well as to support the aims and objectives of the National Curriculum.  It has number at its heart and a lot of time is spent reinforcing number to build competency.  It also provides opportunities to build reasoning and problem solving into the curriculum.  At Studley St Mary's we strongly believe that all children, who are introduced to a concept, should have the opportunity to build on their abilities by following a concrete-pictorial-abstract approach which is also key in White Rose Maths.  It is a cumulative curriculum so once a topic is taught it is met many times again in other contexts, for example place value is taught is the Autumn term but is revisited during the teaching of the four operations.  We also do weekly fluency lessons where we recap skills and knowledge.